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I think part of it has to do with how girls teams have had to work to earn their place along side the boys. Because girls have had to work to rise to the level the boys play at it seems like a boy playing with girls cant keep up with the boys or isnt being manly enough. But for girls because they have come so far and worked so hard to compet at the level they do it's not seen as a negative thing if a boy wants to play, there more apt to embrace it then men do when a female wants to play with them. I think that many men still do not see woman as their equals in competative sports.
hclairmont 1/4/2008 | 
Jessica has brought up an important topic, and Hillary has asked a great question in, "What do you think might causes this difference in they way a boys or girls team treats players of a different gender?"
What do you think?
janicep-share 1/3/2008 | 
In high school, I played Field Hockey and Lacrosse (both skirt sports) and the coach's son played with us until he was about thirteen, and then he stopped coming to practices even though he was pretty good. If he had gone out for the team in high school, he definitely would've made it but he never even saw that as an option. Even with Title IX, boys' sports (football, basketball, hockey, etc.) are always more popularly attended than girls' sports. Even though more and more girls are playing sports and it's definitely more socially acceptable than in the past, there are still cultural assumptions that boys are better at sports than girls. The same goes with video games - I'm pretty good at Guitar Hero and whenever I beat a guy, the spectators react as if it's the most devastating thing in the word to get beaten by a girl. I'm not sure where I've heard this before, but this saying seems relevant: "You throw like a girl...Thanks!"
asutherl 1/2/2008 | 
Reading your piece I was brought back to my high school and growing up in a small town where if you were a girl and wanted to play certain sports like spring and winter soccer or lax you would have to play on the boys teams. I played on three different teams with boys where there were only one or two other girls playing and each time brought up issues like the one you experienced. I thought maybe it was the maturaity level of the boys in high school but I played on an adult team where a middle aged male verbaly attacked me for playing with boys. The relationship the boys had playing a sport with each other constantly seemed like something they could not extend to the girls who were on their teams. Its interesting though because when a boy wanted to play a sport only the girls had teams for the boys were harrassed more by male fans then by the girls on their teams. What do you think might causes this difference in they way a boys or girls team treats players of a different gender?
hclairmont 1/2/2008 | 
Being older and having had more time to reflect on this, is there a part of you that now sympathises with Mark because he was probably mocked by the other boys and possibly Mr. Cook for not being "masculine" in the stereotypical sense?
javillar 1/2/2008 | 
It was obvious that they just didn’t want to pass to us because we were girls. And the girls in my class decided that there was no point in participating because they would continue to harass our abilities no matter is we caught it or not. The down side is that having a PE Teacher that was also male he was unable to see our side therefore our grade no doubtingly suffered do to gender.
Jassica-share 1/2/2008 | 
My favorite sport to play during PE in high school was Ultimate Frisbee. If you’ve never played they you have to try it sometime. I also enjoyed football, soccer, and other games but unlike these more contact sports, ultimate Frisbee is fun and doable for every one that can throw or catch a Frisbee. However, my PE class during sophomore year had a large group of guys you happen to all my best friends and were athletic.

Mr. Cook: “Girls, you need to stop standing around and start participating”
Steph: “I would but the guys won’t pass to us”
Britt: “Yah, all they do is play with each other”
Sam: “We’d pass to you if you could catch it”
Me: “Well how do you know we can’t catch it if you never pass to us?”
Mr. Cook: “Be more involved, ask for it, and show enthusiasm” “and boys try passing to the girls more often”
Mark: “Fine, Steph, Catch!”
(Mark throws the Frisbee to the Steph who gets a hand on the Frisbee but is unable to complete the catch.)
Mark: “See that’s why we don’t throw it to them they can’t catch”
Steph: “Whatever, that was one try”
(less than 30 seconds later I observe that Sam throws a pass to Mark who misses the catch. The guys laugh
about it and continue to praise each other. This seemed odd to me.)
Me: “That’s not really fair Mr. Cook you let them harass us saying they wont pass to us just because we can’t
catch but really that’s not it at all because if given the same number of passes they probably drop it just as
much as we (girls) would”
Jassica-share 1/2/2008 | 
1. Boys don’t want girls on their team
2. Girls like wearing skirts and dresses
3. If you like to do what boys do you’re a tom boy
Jassica-share 1/2/2008 | 

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